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Writer, educator, and health historian | Theater kid | Maine Coon trainer | Bylines in The Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, STAT, and The Drift
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Beyond Mike's very good thread I love this point because it highlights how bad ideas spread. Vanderbilt is qualitatively worse off because of this fella.
Screenshot of article that reads: This has not been an accident. In 2016 and 2017, the university was running deficits so large it held a fire sale of university buildings and expanded its undergraduate population (again), in order to draw in more tuition. But the university did not intend to give students after 2017 the same education that students had received in the past. Instead, the then-provost of the University of Chicago, Daniel Diermeier—now Chancellor of Vanderbilt University—told the university's trustees that if one held the numbers of tenure-stream faculty constant, “the marginal cost of adding these students would be fairly minimal.” He estimated that increased cost at 10 to 20 percent.
August 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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me, personally? i'd call it Reconstruction.
June 30, 2025 at 8:59 PM